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Platform — peatland in Derrinvullig

Platform — peatland
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Platform — peatland in Derrinvullig
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The site (dims. 6m min. E-W x 5m min. N-S; D 0.30m min.) consists of a degraded wooden platform on the field surface, which has been very disturbed by machinery making interpretation difficult. The site has no apparent orientation or structure. The basal deposits consist of an irregular arrangement of mixed brushwood, heavy roundwood and two timbers which was densest in the NE and central areas of the site. The upper surface, as it survived, was comprised of irregularly laid and fragmented mixed brushwood, roundwood and two timbers with no evident orientation, although many of the larger elements had an E-W orientation. These elements consisted of a tight, dense band of brushwood and roundwood with other displaced or dispersed material around this, and a number of apparent pegs occurring throughout the site. A range of woodworking with signatures was evident, cut with metal tool, and a number of lengths of finely dressed wood (92E148:43-44, 46, 48-49, 57) were also recovered. This site appears to post-date the site SMR OF018-048----, located 1.12m to the SW and is 3.70m NW of SMR OF018-038----. Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin). Date of upload: 23 May 2011

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